Christopher Marks

Posted 11 January 2009 - 01:49 PM

Christopher Marks

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Hobbyists sometimes choose to keep a cover on their aquarium for various reasons. Often times it is to help with evaporation control, or to keep fish from jumping outside of the aquarium. There can however be disadvantages to having a covered aquarium, such as overheating.

In the interest of helping others decide, please vote in the poll and share your experiences and solutions in this topic.

point is that before you post you should figure out what the ethos of the thread is. you tweens come in like a herd of horny goats humping every thread in sight, then get surprised when people try to beat you with bamboo canes.

corallineadam

Posted 30 August 2009 - 11:54 AM

BlueAbyss

Posted 30 August 2009 - 09:26 PM

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I have 4 pieces of glass covering my tank, mainly to minimize evaporation (which would make my salinity bounce around like Pam Anderson's jubblies). Also, I have a Purple Firefish now and they are known to be jumpers... I want to build a 'tidepool' tank one day though, completely open air but not viewable from any of the sides, only the top.

Paleoreef103

Posted 30 August 2009 - 09:38 PM

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... Kind of. I use egg crate to create a fish guard, but I also have a hole in the middle to not block any of the halide. Works great and I haven't had a jumper since I put the egg crate on. (lost two clowns and a bicolor blenny to jumping before hand)